Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-08-31
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HISTORY OF THE WEEK.

near Meeker, w here Colorow was supposed
to be, icamped. Is On arriving there they
found the camp had been burned, and
domestic utensils were scattered about as it
the place had been evacuated in great
haste. Young Colorow said he is con;
by cowboys. 1t was also reported that
Chapita, the widow of Chief 0ursky, had
been made away with, as she was among
the missing squaws. The Utes OF this
agency, SO the dispatch says, have no
kn1%sass ~
after Colorows Tor violating the game laws
Gen. Crook said that he had received no
direct information that there has heen an
outbreak at all, and is strongly inclined to
the belief that there is nothing in it.
r. &. Dun 4 Co. S last weekly review
says: Everything now turns on crop pros
poets. Considerable injury is no longer
disputed-indeed, its effects are already
felt in diminishing demand from regions
most affected by the drouth for some manu-
featured products. But estimates of the
extent Of harm done differ widely. Chi
.cago and Detroit advices indicate that
rains were too late to Save a considerable
portion of the corn crop, but after 'declin-
that the injury would not prove SO
extensive as to balance the increase in acre
age, the price rose as much on reports OF
injury by frost Thursday. Latest Govern
ment reports point to probable yield
slightly less than that of last year. Wheat
rose half cent Wednesday, but lost the
advance. Injury to this crop does not ap-
pear important, and official figures point to
a yield exceeding 430, 600, 900 bushels, which
with stocks carried over would meet all
probable requirements. The failures for the
week were, United States l35, Canada 26.
A peculiar incident occurred on the
Lake Erie & Western train which left In
dianapolis, Ind, a few evenings since. AS
the train neared Noblesville a gentleman
suddenly and placed his hands on his pock-
cts. He then complained of having been
robbed and said that he believed the man
who had occupied the seat just back Of him.
but who had disappeared, had. committed
the act 4 passenger informed him that
the man was in the next coach. Then taking
a pistol from his valise, the victim of the
robbery passed into the coach and presented
the cooked revolver at the head of the man
whom he suspected of the robbery. The fol-
low protested his innocence, but the man
with the pistol assumed moro threatening
demeanor and the thief quietly drew the
pocket and handed them to him: The re-
volver was then lowered and the sleepy pas
senger returned to his slumber. No attempt
was made to arrest the thief.
Charles Parker, the cowboy accused
of robbing Paymaster Bush Of $500 at
Antelope Springs, Wyo., March IS, was ar
ranged before Judge Dundy in the United
States court on the charge of robbery. He
in s., 500. In default of this bail he was
turned over to the United States marshal
OF Wyoming to answer at the November
term of the United States court for the
second judicial district OF the territory.
Parker's friends have brought suit for
bower and j. D. Dolan, the sheriff of Logan
county, who captured Parker at Candy, on
the ground that the arrest was made with
out a warrant.
A deadly scourage is affecting Nc
Dowell County, West Virginia and South
western Virginia. The drouth has made the
peculiar disease which has several times
previously followed this state of affairs
and which is supposed to- be a result of
minerals in the water, hasfbroken out. / In
the Dead Horse cave ,neighborhood there
areover 100 cases, with 80 deaths. Not a
family has escaped. Crops are neglected
and farm work is at standstill, it requiring
the entire time Of every individual to care
for the sick and dead. 1t is estimated
that 200 people have died in Mcdowell
county alone, in the last four weeks, from
the disease.
Atchison, Kansas, suffered large
damage from hail storm, half the windows
on the north side OF houses being broken.
The heavy French plate glass in the lower
story of the Daily Champion building was
struck by three large hailstones and broken
into a hundred pieces. Twenty or more
heavy French plate windows were broken
Illuminated windows in the Baptist and
Episcopal churches we're destroyed. The
loss in broken glass will aggregate 81 1000 or
$1,000. b. G. Patchen, printer, was struck
by one of the hailstones and the bridge Of
his nose fattened. His injuries are very
severe.
Portions Of California are just now
experiencing an exciting real estate boom,
conducting much as wheat corners and the
like are manipulated. AS one instance Of
how, infectious the boom bas become,it may
be stated that an excursion train, consisting
of thirty five cars, containg over 5000 peo-
pie, left San Francisco fcf San Jose, Santa
Clara county, to attend an auction sale of
300 lots, which proved q grand success.
Wheat deals, mining stocks and all other
kinds or marginal TRANSACTIONS nave sunk,
comparatively, out OF sight, and street talk
is confined almost entirely to real estate.
At Topeka, Kansas, Thursday morn
ing the barns in which the horses belonging
to the city police force are kept was set on
fire and man and four horses burned to
DEATH Shortly after the flames were put
out the charred remains were found to be
those of Col. G.. c. Graves, lieutenant
colonel of the Second Iowa cavalry and
brigadier general of the Kansas national
guard under Clicks administration. He
had taken lodging in the barn for the night
and was burned to death. There was no in
surance on the horses or barn. ~, -
The Maryland Republicans held their
state copyention at Baltimore and nomina.
ted the following ticket: Governor Walter B
Brooks; Controller, r, B. Dixon; Attorney
General, Francis Miller; The platform fav.
ors an equitable system of taxation and q
revision OF revenue laws and condemns the
federal appointments made in that state az
not based on the civil service law but upon
the will of the Senior United States Senator
(Gormap) from the state,;si1E r. ~,
F. / The. City Of Mexico, has been III